Plockton in the News

What do Thomas Telford opium Duncraig Castle landowning Scottish MPs the Stone of Destiny an evangelical Free Church minister Sabbatarianism riots a shebeen excisemen the Wicker Man Hamish Macbeth Pavarotti and the Brain of Britain got to do with a remote fishing village in Ross-shire?Bernard O'Connor's 'Plockton in the News' includes over 200 years of articles from Scottish newspapers as far north as John o'Groats across to Inverness and Aberdeen and down to Oban Edinburgh and Glasgow as well as a number of English papers. They tell a story of Scotland's class or caste system the strength and weakness of the church nationalism racism local and national politics propaganda accidents crime punishment war peace sexism satire education fishing forestry agriculture transport sport births deaths marriages the impact of tourism and attitudes to 'outsiders' and 'incomers.' All of Scottish life is here.